Degree Requirements
Minimum Credit Requirement: 128 credits
Minimum Residency Requirement: 32 credits must be taken at UNH
Minimum GPA: 2.0 required for conferral*
Core Curriculum Required: Discovery & Writing Program Requirements
Foreign Language Requirement: Yes
All Major, Option and Elective Requirements as indicated.
*Major GPA requirements as indicated.
Major Requirements
The Discovery Program capstone requirement is fulfilled by a final project or a public performance given during the senior year. For students in the composition option, there is a choice of completing a half lecture, half lecture-recital or a half recital including at least one original composition.
Candidates for a degree must satisfy all of the University Discovery Program requirements in addition to satisfying the requirements of each individual major program. Bachelor of arts candidates must also satisfy the foreign language proficiency requirement.
Major department courses may not be used to satisfy Discovery category requirements except in the case of a second major. B.A. in music majors may use MUSI 502 Musics in Context (a required core course for the major) to satisfy the Inquiry Discovery requirement.
Course List Code | Title | Credits |
MUSI 471 & MUSI 472 | Theory I and Theory I | 6 |
MUSI 473 & MUSI 474 | Ear Training I and Ear Training I | 2 |
MUSI 475 & MUSI 476 | Functional Piano I and Functional Piano I 1 | 2 |
MUSI 571 & MUSI 572 | Theory II and Theory II | 6 |
MUSI 573 & MUSI 574 | Ear Training II and Ear Training II | 2 |
MUSI 575 & MUSI 576 | Functional Piano II and Functional Piano II 1 | 2 |
MUSI 501 & MUSI 502 | The Western Musical Canon and Musics in Context | 6 |
MUSI 515 | Music in World Cultures | 4 |
MUSI 540 | Recital Attendance | 0 |
MUSI 691 | Music Internship I | 1-2 |
| 3 |
MUSI 701 | Topics in Music History | |
MUSI 713 | Art Song | |
MUSI #715 | Survey of Opera | |
| 3 |
MUSI #771 | Counterpoint | |
MUSI 781W | Analysis: Form and Structure | |
MUSI 791 | Music Internship II | 2-4 |
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2 | |
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Total Credits | 39-42 |
Music Composition Option Requirements
Degree program has final approval from the National Association of Schools of Music.
Course List Code | Title | Credits |
| 6 |
MUSI #771 | Counterpoint | |
MUSI 779 | Reading and Writing Musical Scores | |
MUSI 781W | Analysis: Form and Structure | |
| 8 |
MUSI 775 | Composition | |
MUSI 776 | Composition | |
MUSI 777 | Advanced Composition | |
MUSI 731 | Conducting | |
| 4 |
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| 8 |
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Total Credits | 26 |
Students in the composition option, if not in a lesson studio, will attend composition seminar.